The first table below looks at the demand for Data Mining skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Mining over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Mining
Rank 87 99 103
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 31 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.271% 0.414% 0.290%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.805% 2.231% 1.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 6
Average daily rate £440 £360 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% -7.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £360 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £543 £392 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £360 £380
% change year-on-year
+21.52% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+31.25% +220.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
534 493 541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 21.89% 18.53% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 215 257
Average daily rate £350 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £235 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 14
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Data Mining
UK

Data Mining
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Mining across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Scotland Data Mining Jobs Demand Trend

Data Mining
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Mining across the Scotland region.

Scotland Data Mining Daily Rate Trend

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Mining across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Data Mining Daily Rate Histogram

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Mining across the Scotland region.

Scotland Data Mining Hourly Rate Trend

Data Mining
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +16 15 £445 +11.25%
Stirling - 7 - -
Glasgow -14 5 £388 +7.63%
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Data Mining
UK

Data Mining
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Mining also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Mining.

1 23 (60.53%) Finance
2 15 (39.47%) SQL
3 11 (28.95%) ETL
3 11 (28.95%) Banking
3 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
4 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
5 9 (23.68%) Validation
5 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (21.05%) XML
6 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (21.05%) Cadis
7 7 (18.42%) SQL Server 2008
7 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (18.42%) DTS
7 7 (18.42%) UNIX
7 7 (18.42%) T-SQL
8 6 (15.79%) Sybase
8 6 (15.79%) Migration
8 6 (15.79%) Business Analysis
9 5 (13.16%) TDD
9 5 (13.16%) Equities
9 5 (13.16%) Data Management
9 5 (13.16%) XPath
9 5 (13.16%) Derivative
9 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
9 5 (13.16%) BDD
9 5 (13.16%) DB2

Data Mining
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Mining also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Mining. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (21.05%) XML
2 4 (10.53%) Silverlight
3 2 (5.263%) MDX
4 1 (2.632%) JSON
4 1 (2.632%) HTML
4 1 (2.632%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.263%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (2.632%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.632%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 7 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (18.42%) DTS
3 5 (13.16%) DB2
4 3 (7.895%) OLAP
5 2 (5.263%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (5.263%) QlikView
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (2.632%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (2.632%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.632%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.632%) Base SAS
6 1 (2.632%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (2.632%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 23 (60.53%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Retail Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Marketing
3 2 (5.263%) Retail
4 1 (2.632%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.632%) Front Office
4 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Business Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Data Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.895%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.895%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) SAS Consultant
6 1 (2.632%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) SAP Architect
6 1 (2.632%) Test Specialist
6 1 (2.632%) Applications Architect
6 1 (2.632%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.632%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Equities
1 5 (13.16%) Derivative
2 3 (7.895%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.263%) Data Integration
3 2 (5.263%) Data Conversion
3 2 (5.263%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) UNIX
2 5 (13.16%) Linux
3 2 (5.263%) Windows
4 1 (2.632%) AIX
4 1 (2.632%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) ETL
1 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
2 9 (23.68%) Validation
2 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
3 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (15.79%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Business Analysis
5 5 (13.16%) TDD
5 5 (13.16%) Data Management
5 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
5 5 (13.16%) BDD
6 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (7.895%) Master Data Management
7 3 (7.895%) Metadata Management
7 3 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (5.263%) Data Migration
8 2 (5.263%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (5.263%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) SQL
2 7 (18.42%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.16%) XPath
4 4 (10.53%) Perl
5 3 (7.895%) Java
6 1 (2.632%) Scala
6 1 (2.632%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.632%) VB
6 1 (2.632%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) Basel III
2 1 (2.632%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.632%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Cadis
2 6 (15.79%) Sybase
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 3 (7.895%) Informatica
4 3 (7.895%) Business Objects
5 2 (5.263%) Trillium
5 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.263%) DataFlux
6 1 (2.632%) HP
6 1 (2.632%) IBM
6 1 (2.632%) SAP
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